Appointments January 26, 2024

Martina Crowley has been appointed as PwC Perth managing partner, taking over from Michelle Tremain. Ms Crowley has worked at PwC since mid-2018, starting in the role of private clients national leader before being appointed as national people and quality leader. Before this, Ms Crowley was a partner at Deloitte Australia for more than three years. Ms Tremain has resigned from PwC Australia after 20 years to work with property developer Adrian Fini. She is set to provide her skills to commercial projects beneath the Fini Group banner, the details of which remain undisclosed. Ms Tremain joined PwC Australia in 2004 and elevated to managing partner in January 2018. 

Shelley Cable has been hired as Head of First Nations Strategy Australia at ANZ following nearly four years at Minderoo Foundation. Until July 2023, Ms Cable worked as director of Generation One, an initiative of Andrew and Nicola Forrest's philanthropic Minderoo Foundation working towards employment equality for Indigenous Australians. Ms Cable has worked as an advisory board member for the Noongar Charitable Trust since September 2022. She has previously served as a member of the federal government’s Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce and a member of the Murdoch University External Advisory Board.

Darshi Ganeson has been selected to fulfill a five-year term as managing director of the South Metropolitan TAFE. Ms Ganeson has been working in the role at an interim basis since September after spending nearly three years as South Regional TAFE managing director. Before this, she served as executive director strategic partnerships at South Metropolitan TAFE for more than 11 years and also served two years with the Department of Education WA as a project manager. Ms Ganeson’s other prior experience includes working as a capacity building consultant in Fiji, an enterprise architect at an insurance company in London and an Australian Bureau of Statistics economist in Canberra.

St John of God Health Care has appointed Insurance Commission of Western Australia commissioner and deputy chair Julie Keene to its board. Ms Keene is a chartered accountant with nearly two decades of experience working as a non-executive director. She worked as HBF Health chief financial officer for four years until August 2017 when she was appointed as chief executive officer of disability services provider MyIntegra Plan Management and Support Coordination. She remained in this role for 3.5 years and joined ICWA in January 2022. Ms Keene currently serves on the boards of Keystart, SensesWA and Curtin Heritage Living.

Kim Williams will be replacing Ita Buttrose as ABC chair after she formally leaves the role on March 6. The appointment, announced by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Federal Communications Minister Michelle Rowland, is for a five-year tenure. Veteran media executive Mr Williams most notably served as News Corp Australia chief executive between 2011 and 2013. He has also worked as chair for a variety of organisations, including the Copyright Agency, the Sydney Opera House Trust, the State Library of New South Wales Foundation Board and Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Former Qantas boss Alan Joyce has resigned from his role as Sydney Theatre Company chair as the organisation faces loses following protests linked to the Israel-Hamas war. Mr Joyce joined the theatre’s board of directors in 2022 and elevated to the chair position in March 2023. He formerly worked as the chief executive and managing director of Qantas Airways from November 2008 to September 2023.